Prime Minister

Chapter 509 The Crown Prince

In the emperor's bedroom, there is a smell of wormwood.

And on the sickbed.

After a day of acupuncture and burning moxa by the medical officer, the officials finally recovered a little bit.

At this moment, Empress Gao Taotao was sitting beside the official family.

Before Gao Taotao finally couldn't stand the accusation of Empress Dowager Cao, Song Kou accepted three concubines for the official family as a blessing for the official family's illness.

But the official family suddenly had concubines, they seemed very happy, but they were so happy that they hadn't seen the three concubines, and suddenly fell ill yesterday, unable to speak, it can be described as joy begets sorrow.

After being treated by the imperial physician, the official family is considered to be better. Just now when the prince Zhao Xu came to visit, he heard Zhao Xu say that it was something he thought of, and his face showed joy.

Empress Gao who was at the side said happily: "Your Majesty has finally grown up and knows that he can rule the world with benevolence."

Zhao Shu also nodded and said, "Good...good."

His face was full of relief.

Zhao Xu was a little uneasy, and Empress Gao said to him: "Your father has always worried that you will not be able to inherit the great treasure. Now that you have this insight, I am much more at ease."

At this time Zhao Shu reluctantly said: "My lord, you also remember that it is good to rule the world with benevolence and righteousness, but you can't listen to the ministers in everything."

Zhao Xu asked, "Why?"

Zhao Shu said weakly: "The emperor governs the world, there is a kingly way and hegemony. You can't just follow the kingly way. If there is no hegemony supplemented, there will be no kingly way."

Zhao Xu thought deeply and said: "My son has been taught."

Empress Gao said: "Then according to Your Majesty, how should we reward them?"

The officials thought about it, and thought of how angry they had been in front of Zhao Zong'er when they were in Prince Pu's mansion, and how Zhao Yunchu fought with him for the prince, and how Zhao Yunbi, who had always been nice to him, actually came out to fight the night the late emperor died. The throne, I really hate these three people from the bottom of my heart.

Asking him to posthumously reward these three people is even more uncomfortable than killing him.

But after falling ill last night, he felt that his time was running out. After he left, could the ministers assist Zhao Xu with all their strength?
For Zhao Xu, this tone must be swallowed no matter what, and the throne will be passed on to him.

In this way, the support of the Minister must be obtained.

Zhao Shu said: "Pass down the oral order and let Zhongshu do it."

Zhao Shu was sweating profusely after saying these few words, and lay down on the bed weakly.

Immediately, Han Qi and others immediately drafted an edict to give Zhao Yunchu a Zhongshu Ling, and adopted the son of the clan as his descendant from the clan.

Zhao Zonger was added as the Jiedu Envoy of the Baojing Army from the Yizhou Defense Envoy, but the officials were dissatisfied, and then he was added as the Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, and changed to Jiqing Army Jiedu Envoy and the school inspector Zuo Pushe.

Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi is the title of the prime minister, but if the Jiedu envoy adds this title, it is only a false title.But even so, it is a first-class honor.

Except for Zhao Zonge, all the descendants of King Pu and the descendants of King Lu were promoted to the first rank, and there were 20 people who were promoted.

Zhao Yunbi paid homage to the order of Zhongshu.

Anyway, as soon as this matter happened, all the officials heard about the prince Zhao Xu's suggestion, so they all praised the future emperor as a benevolent king.

Even the clan that fought with them for the throne can be treated kindly, so who can't be treated kindly?

All of a sudden, all the officials had a good opinion of Zhao Xu.

From autumn to winter solstice, in November, the official's health has not been good. This time he fell ill again, and the illness was even worse than before.

Zhao Xu obeyed Han Qi's words and never left the official's house, guarding almost all day and all night in front of Yutao.

Sometimes Zhao Shu was sober and could say a few words, but sometimes he could only point to his mouth but couldn't say a word.

Zhao Shu's eldest daughter, Princess Xu, is going to marry General Wang Shiyue, the general of the left guard.

Zhao Shu said to Zhao Xu: "The sons of scholar-bureaucrats all respect the emperor and daughter, and use promotion to avoid the respect of uncle and aunt. I used to think about this, and couldn't sleep at night, thinking that abolishing human relations should not be the law of the world. Didn't Princess Fukang marry her son-in-law because of this? Aunt and aunt turned against each other, so that this life is unfortunate?"

"I think this should be corrected. In the future, my daughter will abolish the ceremony of promotion when she gets married."

Zhao Xu was very moved when he heard this, and after Princess Xu married, Queen Gao Taotao and Zhao Xu personally sent him to the Wang family's home to get married.

Everyone in the Wang family was moved to see the royal family being so respectful.

This was Zhao Shu's final decision. In November, Xixia invaded again, and the officials became more worried, and at this time, they had not been in court for several months.

It was December of the third year of Zhiping.

The officials were completely speechless, and all the medical officials were at a loss what to do. Empress Gao immediately invited Han Qi and other ministers to visit.

Han Qi and the others looked at the emperor lying on the sickbed. This familiar scene happened four years ago.

At that time, the first emperor also became ill like this, is the new emperor going to die now?

The ministers cried for a while, and then Han Qi wiped away his tears and said to Zhao Shu: "Your Majesty has not been in court for several months. At this time, the ministers are very worried about His Majesty's dragon body. Please make up your mind to establish a crown prince early, otherwise The people of the world are in panic."

All the ministers are seconded.

The official opened his eyes and looked at Han Qi and the others, but nodded slightly but did not speak.

Han Qi immediately ordered: "Please bring paper and pen immediately."

The words written on the paper by the official's trembling and stiff hands were like a fairy flying from the sky. At this moment, he couldn't even hold the pen, and the ministers did not dare to support the official's hand to write.

Han Qi and the others could only say: "Smear the official's finger with ink and write it."

Finally, the official family exhausted all their strength and wrote a few words on the paper, "Make the king the crown prince".

Everyone was relieved to have the official's handwriting, but Han Qi frowned again and said: "This is against the rules. Although I know that the king must be King Ying, please confirm it with your majesty, so that the ministers and workers will not doubt it."

The officials wrote the three characters of Ying Wangxu with their fingers dipped in ink.

Only then did Han Qi and other ministers feel relieved, and then looked at Zhao Xu and Empress Gao who were weeping aside.

A few moments later, Zhang Fangping rushed to the court under the order of the Imperial Academy.

Zhang Fangping wanted to draft the imperial edict for the canonization of the crown prince. According to Wang Gui's rules before, he had to inquire about the matter in person, and Han Qi and the others didn't count.

Therefore, before the bed collapsed, Zhang Fangping continued to question the official, but the official said a few words that could not be heard clearly.

In the end, it was done with finger ink.

The officials first wrote "a decree will be issued in the coming day, and Xu will be crown prince". After that, everyone felt that the handwriting was unclear, so Zhang Fangping asked the officials to write again.

At this time, the officials had no energy, and they wrote the word "Xu Wang", but everyone felt that they couldn't see clearly.

Finally, the officials used all their strength to write the words "big king".

After tossing and tossing, Zhang Fangping still felt that it was inappropriate, and asked the officials to write more accurately, but seeing Empress Gao, Han Qi, and Zhao Xu all glaring at him, he immediately said he obeyed the order.

At this time, Han Qi and Wen Yanbo came to pay homage to the official's house with Zhao Xu on the left and right.

The official glanced at Zhao Xu, and two tears fell from the corners of his eyes.

Zhao Xu burst into tears and said loudly: "I will not be the crown prince, I will not be the crown prince."

Zhao Shu stretched out his hand and patted the back of Zhao Xu's hand.

All the officials sighed at this subtle movement.

(End of this chapter)